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1. The song "Waltzing Matilda" contains many Aboriginal words. What is the Aboriginal word for a pool of water?
2. What is the name of the Aboriginal homeland in the north of the Northern Territory?
3. What is the name of the treeless plain that lies on Australia's southern coast?
4. An ancient rainforest area is to be found in northern Queensland 80 km north of Cairns. What is its name?
5. What large body of water lies to the west of Australia?
6. Australia has more than one flightless bird. One has a bony projection on its head and wattles on its neck. What is this bird?
7. This group of domed shaped hills in the Northern Territory is known by two names. One is Kata Tjuta. What is the other?
8. Which river was dammed in the 1960s to create Lake Argyle?
9. The sea named for this explorer lies between Australia and New Zealand.
10. The first letters of the above answers spell the name of a rat-like marsupial that lives in Australia.
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